[Leaplist] someone explain why YUM does not do as it is told?

[ray]

George Streeper wrote:
> How about your yum.conf file will it work if you exclude it there:
> man yum.conf
>
>
> On 3/6/07, ray <ssma at sunstatemartialarts.com> wrote:
>> on my laptop, seeing as i can not use my wifi card i plugged into eth0,
>> i figured i would run yum update as i have not in a very long time.
>>
>> well it keeps craping out on Processing Dependency:
>> libjaspter-1.701.so.1 is neede by package ImageMagick
>>
>> ok no big deal, ill just yum remove ImageMagick, nope can't do that as
>> it will remove kaffeine and xine.lib  nope not going to do that.
>>
>> so yum --exclude=ImageMagick update
>>
>> well --exclude DOES NOT WORK.  i have tried yum update --exclude, and
>> yum --exclude it does not matter were i put the --exclude, it continues
>> to try to find the dependency for ImageMagic even though it is supposed
>> to NOT BE UPGRADING that package, it has been told to exclude, and as
>> far as i can tell from reading the man page that is the same thing as
>> being told to ignore that package.  yet why does it continue to try to
>> upgrade that package?
>>
>> very frustrated and a bit tired.  yet again why i so much prefer apt
>> over yum any day of the week.  no dont try to get me to install and
>> reconfigure apt on a Cent box, not worth the hassle.  i just wan yum to
>> do what it is told.
>>
>> -- 
>> Raymond L. Brunkow
>> 5th Degree Black Belt
>> Chief Instructor & Owner
>> Sun State Martial Arts
>> 407-786-2525
>> http://www.SunStateMartialArts.us
>>
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*--exclude=package*
    Exclude a specific package by name or glob from updates on all
    repositories. Configuration Option: *exclude*

that is right out of man yum so according to that it should no longer 
look at ImageMagick as a package to update/grade.

-- 
Raymond L. Brunkow
5th Degree Black Belt
Chief Instructor & Owner
Sun State Martial Arts
407-786-2525
http://www.SunStateMartialArts.us

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